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Variety of European pear · Pyrus communis
Healthy, undemanding autumn dessert pear with sweet, semi-melting flesh.
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
sweettender
Profile
- Breeder
- Lesueur
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Half-melting, sweetish flesh.
Growth
Moderate to strong growth.
Yield
Good and early yields.
Notes
Very healthy, undemanding variety for garden and orchard with low site demands; grows up to mid-mountain sites around 350 m with no special warmth needs. Pick early October, ready to use October to late November, keeps about 2 months.
Care
Robust, low-maintenance variety; ordinary maintenance pruning suffices.
Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species European pear unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page
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